James Daniel Lynch
Judge

James Daniel Lynch (January 6, 1836 – July 19, 1903) was an American lawyer, farmer, judge, poet, and writer. His poem "Columbia Saluting the Nations" was chosen as the official salutation for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. He lived in Mississippi. He served in the Confederate Army.[1] He was an opponent of Reconstruction.[2]

He was born in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and studied at the University of North Carolina.[3] He moved to Columbus, Mississippi in 1860 and taught at Franklin Academy.[3]

His legal career became a struggle due to hearing impairment and he turned to writing. His book Kemper County Vindicated, And a Peep at Radical Rule in Mississippi was a response to criticisms of home rule by Radical Republican James M. Wells over the Chisolm Massacre[3] in The Chisolm Massacre: A Picture of "Home Rule" in Mississippi (1877).[4]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Black, Patti Carr; Barnwell, Marion (June 22, 2002). Touring Literary Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781578063673 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ McKee, Kathryn B. (January 8, 2019). Reading Reconstruction: Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post-Civil War South. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807170618 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b c Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967. Univ. Press of Mississippi. June 22, 1981. ISBN 9781617034183 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967. Univ. Press of Mississippi. June 22, 1981. ISBN 9781617034183 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Lynch, James D. (James Daniel), 1836-1903 | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.


Categories